SET YOUR TABLE, AND GIVE BACK
Five percent of all rental profits go towards helping local girls
who have been set free.
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” - Psalm 23:5 KJV
Have you ever stopped to think of all the meals you’ve had around a table in your life? Whether it’s happy times with family and friends or sad times, gathering around the table is part of life - no matter what it looks like.
Unfortunately, there are women and children around the world that have missed meals with family and friends. Human trafficking is a 150 billion dollar industry - which will soon surpass the drug trade, and many of these victims are victims of child sex trafficking. Every 40 seconds, a child goes missing. It is estimated that 800,000 children are reported missing every year in the United States alone. Sex trafficking has become modern day slavery.
As a child, I was almost kidnapped from Hemphill-Wells department store in San Angelo, Texas, in the spring of 1975. I was four years old. As young as I was, I still have some vivid memories of that day.
I was with my mom, grandmother, aunt, and cousin when a man with four women near by came up and asked me if I wanted some candy. What child doesn’t want candy, right? But of course, that candy wasn’t in his back pocket it was in his car. That would mean we would have to go downstairs, and out the door to his car to get it. So, off I went riding down the escalator with a stranger to get candy in his car, when by the grace of God, my grandmother looked over the railing and saw me. Screaming for me to stay there when we got off the escalator, the man ran off. If my grandmother had not seen me when she did, I might not be sitting here today.
The Velvet Table will take 5% of every rental and donate it to a local healing home for girls in Boerne. Retreat 4 Kids is a local home for girls who have been sexually trafficked or abused and now have a table to gather around. May we all be a light in this dark world for our children.
